CRPD in International Sign. DVD available from the WFD by email. Orders@wfdeaf.org
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So far, the CRPD has been translated into the following Sign Languages!
Photo with Carlos Rios Espinosa, the CRPD representative from Mexico
Photo with four Gallaudet Students at the UN in Geneva
2011- April
United Nations, Geneva.
Meeting of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Attended and lobbied on behalf of the WFD and its Ordinary Members.
2011- April
Geneva, Switzerland.
Workshop with International Disability Alliance on lobbying with the CRPD and CERD at the UN.
2011- March
Oslo, Norway.
Mainstreaming Disability in Development. Represented the WFD at an international seminar hosted by NORAD. Participated in Education Working Group.
Photo with Dr. Liisa Kauppinen, International Disability Alliance and WFD President Emeritus
2010-September
United Nations, New York City.
The WFD representative at the Third Conference of State Parties, Convention on the Human Rights of Peoples with Disabilities.
2010- September
United Nations, New York City.
Photo with Dr. Kósa Ádám, Member of European Parliament at the United Nations, New York, 2010.
Towards Barrier-Free Education for Deaf Children. Presented with WFD President Markku Jokinen at the WFD Side Event at the Third Conference of State Parties, Convention on the Human Rights of Peoples with Disabilities.
2008- July
Dublin, Ireland.
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and Deaf Academics. Keynote presenter at the
Fourth International Deaf Academics
and Researchers Conference.
Photo with Markku Jokinen, current WFD president, and Lawrence Edelifo, a deaf member of the Nigerian Government Delegation to the United Nations Conference of State parties in New York
2007
Ål, Norway.
Producer for DVD, “International Signs used at the WFD General Assembly,” in cooperation with the WFD, the Norwegian Association of the Deaf, the Ål folkehøyskole og kurssenter for døve, and Døves Media.
2007- September
United Nations, Geneva.
The WFD representative at the Sixth Session of the Human Rights Council.
2007-September
Geneva, Switzerland
Meeting of the International Disability Alliance
Photo of presentation with WFD President, Markku Jokinen and Shuaib Chalklen, the UN Special Rapporteur on Disability, at the Third Conference of State Parties, Convention on the Human Rights of Peoples with Disabilities
2007-September
Geneva, Switzerland
World Health Organization, Disability and Rehabilitation Partners Meeting.
Group Photo of the Fourth International Deaf Academics and Researchers Conference in Ireland
Photo with the IFHOH President, Jan-Peter Strömgren, at the International Disability Alliance meeting in Geneva, Switzerland